Danderman123

I had a Thai lady try the Escalator Scam on me recently. The first step is to borrow a small amount, and to promptly pay it back. Then, ask to borrow a large amount, and then pay it back. Shampoo, rinse, repeat, each time with larger loan amounts. When the target amount is borrowed, time to disappear.

If you live in Pattaya, its par for the course.

I have seen too many couples where the lady obviously married for money, and barely tolerates her husband/ATM. In some cases, she can be publicly contemptious of her Tilac. Better to rent than to buy.

There are 2 major pitches I get: a bargirl needs money urgently, for some unforeseen crisis. She just needs money, no idea how she will pay it back. or a bargirl is blowing the bolts and going home to Isaan. So she borrows money from everyone, even 100 baht loans work for her, since she thinks she is never coming back. Of course, there are variations on this: some ladies are so into drugs, they can only think of the money they need right now.

I had a bargirl pitch me for 6000 baht last night. Apparently, she forgot that just 2 days ago, she had asked me about what time Western Union opened.

Exactly wrong. It's the human body's reaction to the virus that kills you, not the virus. Of course, there are plenty of people suffering from auto-immune diseases who would disagree with you.

Clearly, you don't understand science, and underestimate the impact of a well conducted clinical study. Your position is usually maintained by individuals making claims without the underlying clinical studies, or any evidence. Usually, its about aliens or Bigfoot.

Anecdotes are not evidence.

To be clear, the 2026 phase links Bangkok with Khorat. This is a very worthy development. Of course 2026 is unrealistic. 2036 is more probable.

This particular Covid wave will disappear like the rest. The strategy is to limit infections, which then serves to reduce the chances of a nastier strain evolving. Every infected person serves as a biolab for Covid to evolve, so the fewer infected, the slower the virus evolves. Covid Deniers and antivaxxers serve to promote infection, and thus assist the virus to evolve into possibly deadlier forms. They won't understand until its too late, and even then never comprehend the consequences of their actions. Just like Covid Deniers on their death beds claiming "its just the Flu".

To be accurate: the definition of a Covid death mentioned above was used for the daily reports. But official death numbers were based on standard coroner reports, which were produced using lab reports and autopsies. Ofiicial mortality numbers from Covid usually exceeded the daily numbers due to large numbers who died from Covid outside of hospitals.

Oops.

Nothing typifies drooling nonsense more than rapid antivax Covid Deniers. You know, the people that advocated horse dewormer as a cure. Or claimed that a million Americans died with Covid, not from Covid. Concerning the last sentence, when confronted with data showing more than a million excess deaths during the pandemic, the Deniers weakly respond that "nobody died from the flu during Covid".

The problem with your thinking is that you confuse "not 100% effective" with "0% effective".

I guess your post makes sense if you think that saving lives has no value.

In Real Life, vaccinated individuals died from Covid at much lower rates than the unvaccinated.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00320-6/fulltext 14.4 million lives saved the first year of vaccination.

Were you vaccinated when you were a child? Was it traumatic for you? You seem to believe that refusal to vaccinate during an epidemic that killed a million Americans is somehow a good thing.

Given how many lives were saved by vaccination, its all good. I understand that *somebody* has to take the side of the virus, that's just human nature. So, yeah, anything that served to protect people from the virus would be deplorable for pro-virus types.

Nope. If an official thought at the time that vaccination was 100% effective, they made a harmless mistake. On the other hand, someone claiming that vaccination is ineffective induces people to forgo vaccination, with the result that people die. You are deluded if your panties are in a bun over early optimism about vaccine efficacy. More to the point, you cannot differentiate between high effectiveness and zero effectiveness. Which is weird. It's like someone claiming that since condoms are not 100% effective, they are 0% effective.

Yeah, those medical researchers and physicians who maintain that vaccination is effective in reducing Covid infections are all wrong, because you know more than them. There are special facilities for people who think like that. Especially since anti-vaxxers indirectly cause Covid infections by inducing people to forgo vaccination.

And I am talking about misinformation spread by deluded anti-vaxxers that caused many people to forgo vaccination and to die an agonizing death from Covid. Some people have no shame. A million dead Americans from Covid, and you are still pushing the anti-vax agenda.

This is really tiresome. You are confused by statements describing use of vaccination to reach herd immunity, based on historical precedent. The point they were making is that herd immunity could be reach if X% got vaccinated (ignoring quick mutation by the virus, which wasn't known at the time). The fly in the ointment was a bunch of politically motivated anti-vaxxers who were willing to die to own the Libs. Which they did.

If anyone got vaccinated due to assurances of public health officials, most were protected from infection, and perhaps 10s of 1000s were saved from an agonizing death. It's called erring on the side of caution. Your position is like someone saying that no birth control method should be used because nothing is 100% effective. Kind of crazy, if you ask me.

It looks like it's going to be one booster per year.